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‘Rock music heavies promise to tilt earth on its axis over African poverty.’

‘It is unfair is when a team struggling for survival faces a foe loaded with contracted players, and the following week another club, also facing relegation, finds them stripped of the heavies and manages a win.’

‘Held at the end of January or beginning of February each year, Davos is where corporate chieftains and political heavies discuss making the world better while slaloming the Alps.’

‘There is a lot of laughter, no doubt fueled by the heavy in the beer tent.’

‘Lager and heavy may have replaced whiskey, folk ate chips instead of tacos, but country music is all about feeling and the sentiment was real.’

adverb

Heavily.

in combination‘heavy-laden’

‘his words hung heavy in the air’

‘Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.’

‘Both were breathing pretty heavy, and not to mention, a couple of people were staring from different tables.’

‘They climbed quick and sure, breathing heavy in the thinning air.’

‘The feeling weighed heavy on his shoulders and in his mind as he finished combing his hair.’

‘From there I started to get pretty heavy into suspension analysis for bikes.’

Phrases

heavy going

Difficult or boring to deal with.

‘she found Hilary heavy going’

‘While it was heavy going underfoot, both teams worked hard and provided some entertaining football.’

‘Connoisseurs of traditional Hungarian cuisine delight in its range of piquant flavours and aromas, and dishes which are spicy and often rather heavy going.’

‘The book is densely written, and the style can be heavy going but it will be an essential source-book for social historians.’

‘We always finish the uphill run with 10 or so sprints in the baking sun - that's heavy going, I can tell you.’

‘Changing from two to four-wheel drive can be done on the move, and you can then flick into low-ratio mode for the really heavy going.’

‘Then again, that kind of thing is a little bit heavy going for when you're stuck in an airport.’

‘It might be a bit heavy going, as it's written for an academic readership (so I've no doubt it will appear jargon-laden to some), and it's fairly long.’

‘Its myriad of metaphors, however, makes it heavy going and I found it tiresome in the extreme - and shocking in part.’

‘There are many books I start, then stick on for whatever reason; not in the mood, they're too heavy going, too light, I'm not old enough yet, too old.’

‘The course was very wet and muddy, making it heavy going.’

‘It's heavy going but it's a wonderful narrative history of the role of both Islam and the army in the Pakistani nation-building exercise from the 1940s to the present day.’

‘It was quite heavy going because of the heat and there were night duties.’

‘It was relatively heavy going in the muddy conditions and was surprisingly an enjoyable game for the home side supporters despite the frustration of watching a tentative home side that has not played as a team for some time.’

‘We spent that night huddled in tents beneath the top of the pass, and by the next afternoon, despite the heavy going, we were nearing the top.’

‘The downside is that some of this stuff can be heavy going.’

‘As most of the books are heavy going and may not tempt us to read them voluntarily, the writer deserves our thanks for arousing our interest in knowing more about them.’

‘It has been mentioned that public bodies find it heavy going to dig out old records.’

‘Her open-wound honesty has made some of her albums heavy going, but here she applies her trademark whispered vocals to her most accessible collection in a decade.’

‘Light entertainment can be surprisingly heavy going.’

‘Being an avid bookaholic I often take something quite heavy going to last me the duration, unless we are travelling by car and then I usually manage to sneak a carrier bag of books in!’